Being a Bay Area football fan has been tough in recent years. The Niners and the Raiders have been mediocre at best and absolutely horrid at worst. But the teams have still been able to maintain some loyalty with the fan base. The Raiders even managed to sell-out yesterday's game early enough to avoid the local-market TV blackout. But that sell-out came at a cost.
It seems that Bears fans bought up enough tickets to make the game more of a home away from home for the visiting Bears. Early in the game, Bears receiver, Muhsin Muhammad caught a pass and the chant of "Muuuush!!! Muuuush!!!" could be heard throughout the stadium. Tough to hear if you're a Raider fan, but at least they got to see the game on TV.
What's more irritating is to have that kind of thing happen even when your team is doing well, contending for the playoffs and even the Super Bowl, and you still hear that kind of chant for a visiting team. What it means is that enough home fans have sold their tickets to the visiting fans to create a significant enough presence to make the visiting team a little more comfortable on the road. In my view, such home fans are traitors to their team.
I remember when the Niners were still very good. There was a waiting list to get season tickets. Every game was sold out. You couldn't get a ticket at face value. And yet, every time the Cowboys came to the 'Stick, you would hear the "Moooose!!!" chants whenever Moose Johnson touched the ball. It used to drive me crazy. How can there be so many Cowboy fans at the stick during a Super Bowl season? How could Niner fans be so disloyal and greedy that they would sell their tickets to Cowboy fans?
This even happened during a play-off game with the Cowboys at the stick!!! Unacceptable!. If you have playoff tickets for your home team, and you sell your tickets to a fan of the other team, you should lose your right to season tickets. Because you are not true fan. You are a traitor who doesn't deserve to be in the same stadium with true faithful.
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